linux-kernel - Re: doc: stable-api-nonsense missing link

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Date:   Fri, 18 Jan 2019 08:20:31 +0100
From:   Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc:     Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@...a.pv.it>,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: doc: stable-api-nonsense missing link

On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 03:19:53PM -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jan 2019 23:14:08 +0100
> Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@...a.pv.it> wrote:
> 
> > in this document
> > 
> > Documentation/process/stable-api-nonsense.rst
> > 
> > there is this note:
> > 
> > <insert link to leech comment from Andrew and Linus here>
> > 
> > Is it possible to get it fixed with the proper link? I searched for it without 
> > success. If that comment is impossible to find I will send a patch to remove 
> > that note, but first I wanted to ask you if you know where to get it.
> 
> That sounds like a question for Greg (copied).  Given that this document
> predates the Git era, though, I suspect that whatever reference that was
> meant to be is long since lost.

It was referring to an email thread about this topic that happened at
the time I wrote the document.  Let me try to dig through my archives,
but given that it was written well over a decade ago, I don't know if I
will be able to find it easily...

thanks,

greg k-h